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Before he can grasp it the male officer grabs his wrist but suddenly he spins around as the policewoman screams “stop resisting.”

As the officers begin to put handcuffs on him, he complains: “What am I being arrested for?” before he grabs a male officer by the throat and begins strangling him.

A female cop reads the suspect his rights, as he appears to reach for a glass of water on a coffee table (Photo: Met Police)

The cop repeatedly screams “get off me” in a panic before his colleagues manage to yank the violent thug away and get him in handcuffs.

The footage was played in court, where the defendant now also faces a charge of assaulting a police officer.

Announcing the decision to kit his officers out with the cameras, Metropolitan Police Commissioner Sir Bernard Hogan-Howe says he believe they will be a great support.

He said: "Our experience of using cameras already shows that people are more likely to plead guilty when they know we have captured the incident on a camera. That then speeds up justice, puts offenders behind bars more quickly and most importantly protects potential victims.

The cop is heard repeatedly screaming “get off me” in a panic before his colleagues manage to yank the violent thug away (Photo: Met Police)

"Video captures events in a way that can't be represented on paper in the same detail, a picture paints a thousand words, and it has been shown the mere presence of this type of video can often defuse potentially violent situations without the need for force to be used."

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Describing the video in a statement released on the the Met's website, it said: "Officers initially, arresting a suspect for a domestic incident before he assaults a police officer by strangling him. A struggle ensues before the suspect is handcuffed and further arrested for assault on police.

"This footage was played in court."

Horror as policewoman is strangled in shocking footage taken by officer's body-worn camera (Photo: Met Police)

The deployment of all 22,000 cameras will be managed in a phased approached and is anticipated to be complete by next summer.

In November 2015 the Mayor's Office for Policing and Crime (MOPAC), following a successful trial awarded a three-year contract worth £3.4 million to Axon Public Safety UK Limited, to supply the MPS with 22,000 cameras.

The cameras have already proved particularly successful in domestic abuse cases where there has been an increase in earlier guilty pleas from offenders who know their actions have been recorded.